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UK
2024

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Business and Management

D-Index
57
Citations
14221
World Ranking
656
National Ranking
97

David Smallbone publication distribution in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Business and Management in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David Smallbone sits on this spectrum.

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35 publications 436+

This scientist: 290 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 436 publications or more.

David Smallbone D-index placement in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Business and Management scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David Smallbone sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 156 scientists 31 D-Index: 159 scientists 32 D-Index: 171 scientists 33 D-Index: 161 scientists 34 D-Index: 135 scientists 35 D-Index: 124 scientists 36 D-Index: 114 scientists 37 D-Index: 111 scientists 38 D-Index: 103 scientists 39 D-Index: 89 scientists 40 D-Index: 81 scientists 41 D-Index: 97 scientists 42 D-Index: 80 scientists 43 D-Index: 69 scientists 44 D-Index: 68 scientists 45 D-Index: 63 scientists 46 D-Index: 54 scientists 47 D-Index: 69 scientists 48 D-Index: 50 scientists 49 D-Index: 58 scientists 50 D-Index: 54 scientists 51 D-Index: 62 scientists 52 D-Index: 54 scientists 53 D-Index: 43 scientists 54 D-Index: 49 scientists 55 D-Index: 35 scientists 56 D-Index: 40 scientists 57 D-Index: 44 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 29 scientists 60 D-Index: 48 scientists 61 D-Index: 32 scientists 62 D-Index: 30 scientists 63 D-Index: 22 scientists 64 D-Index: 22 scientists 65 D-Index: 19 scientists 66 D-Index: 20 scientists 67 D-Index: 18 scientists 68 D-Index: 17 scientists 69 D-Index: 21 scientists 70 D-Index: 20 scientists 71 D-Index: 19 scientists 72 D-Index: 14 scientists 73 D-Index: 10 scientists 74 D-Index: 16 scientists 75 D-Index: 24 scientists 76 D-Index: 13 scientists 77 D-Index: 19 scientists 78 D-Index: 8 scientists 79 D-Index: 6 scientists 80 D-Index: 4 scientists 81 D-Index: 12 scientists 82 D-Index: 7 scientists 83 D-Index: 7 scientists 84 D-Index: 6 scientists 85 D-Index: 10 scientists 86 D-Index: 4 scientists 87 D-Index: 11 scientists 88 D-Index: 6 scientists 89+ D-Index: 96 scientists
30 D-Index 89+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 89 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

David Smallbone was affiliated with Kingston University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focused on the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

Their scholarly work contributed to several subfields, including Strategy and Management, Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Accounting, and Development.

Key topics within Smallbone's research encompassed Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Firm Innovation and Growth, International Business and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Innovation and Knowledge Management, Corporate Finance and Governance, Taxation and Compliance Studies, and Economic and Technological Developments in Russia.

Smallbone published in a range of academic journals. Frequent publication venues included:

  • Journal of Business Research
  • Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development

Their notable papers included:

  • Internationalisation as a stimulus for SME innovation in developing economies: Comparing SMEs in factor-driven and efficiency-driven economies, 2022, Journal of Business Research
  • Access to finance for SMEs in post-socialist countries: the Baltic States and the South Caucasus compared, 2021, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development

Smallbone collaborated frequently with several co-authors during their career. These included George Saridakis, Yazid Abdullahi Abubakar, Bernard Owens Imarhiagbe, Robert Blackburn, and Anne-Marie Mohammed.

Best Publications

  • Institutional perspectives on entrepreneurial behavior in challenging environments

    Friederike Welter;David Smallbone

  • Institutional Perspectives on Entrepreneurial Behavior in Challenging Environments

    Friederike Welter;David Smallbone

  • The distinctiveness of entrepreneurship in transition economies

    David Smallbone;Friederike Welter

  • Female entrepreneurship in transition economies: the case of Lithuania and Ukraine

    Ruta Aidis;Friederike Welter;David Smallbone;Nina Isakova

  • The characteristics and strategies of high growth SMEs

    David Smallbone;Roger Leig;David North

  • Institutional Perspectives on Entrepreneurial Behavior in Challenging Environments

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  • The Role of Government in SME Development in Transition Economies

    David Smallbone;Friederike Welter

  • Exploring the Role of Trust in Entrepreneurial Activity

    Friederike Welter;David Smallbone

  • The innovativeness and growth of rural SMEs during the 1990s.

    David J. North;David Smallbone

  • Small business responses to a major economic downturn: Empirical perspectives from New Zealand and the United Kingdom

    David Smallbone;David Deakins;Martina Battisti;John Kitching

  • Conceptualising entrepreneurship in a transition context

    David Smallbone;Friederike Welter

  • Developing entrepreneurship and enterprise in Europe's peripheral rural areas: Some issues facing policy-makers

    David J. North;David Smallbone

  • Public sector support for innovating SMEs

    David J. North;David Smallbone;Ian Vickers

  • Policies to support ethnic minority enterprise: the English experience

    Monder Ram;David Smallbone

  • Women’s entrepreneurship from an institutional perspective: the case of Uzbekistan

    Friederike Welter;David Smallbone

  • Entrepreneurship and institutional change in transition economies: the Commonwealth of Independent States, Central and Eastern Europe and China compared

    David Smallbone;Friederike Welter

  • Ethnic Minority Businesses in Scotland and the Role of Social Capital

    David Deakins;Mohammed Ishaq;David Smallbone;Geoff Whittam

  • Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development in Post-Socialist Economies

    David Smallbone;Friederike Welter

  • Access to finance by ethnic minority businesses in the UK

    David Smallbone;Monder Ram;David Deakins;Robert B Aldock

  • Government and entrepreneurship in transition economies: the case of small firms in business services in Ukraine

    David Smallbone;Friederike Welter;Artem Voytovich;Igor Egorov

  • Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Strategies in Transition Economies: An Institutional Perspective

    Friederike Welter;David Smallbone

  • Networking and ethnic minority enterprise development: insights from a North London study

    Akin Fadahunsi;David Smallbone;Salinder Supri

Frequent Co-Authors

Friederike Welter
Friederike Welter University of Siegen
Monder Ram
Monder Ram Aston University
Fergus Lyon
Fergus Lyon Middlesex University
Mário Raposo
Mário Raposo University of Beira Interior
Hans Landström
Hans Landström Lund University
Mark Hart
Mark Hart Aston University
George Saridakis
George Saridakis University of Kent
Teemu Kautonen
Teemu Kautonen Zayed University
Marina Dabić
Marina Dabić University of Zagreb
Trevor Jones
Trevor Jones Aston University

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